Simple question this week - do you like berries? How do you eat or cook with them? We used to have a mulberry tree back in Aus, I have not had a decent mulberry in years.... Mum used to make mulberry pies and mulberry jam which was ohhhhhh soooooo good!

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ooooooohhhhh Mulberry jam , I love Mulberry jam but I have not had it for years , my grandparents lived somwhere once with a large mulbury tree in the garden ( that I was nt allowed to climb ..ever ...but it did not stop me trying to climb it !!) I remember Mulberry jam.

Yes I love Berries , I get quite excited about the strawberies when they start arriving on the plants ..you cant beat a fresh picked British Strawberry.delicious however they are eaten.

Raspberies .. oh I love raspberries , Fresh made Raspberry jam is a favorite in our house. Frozen raspberries are always in the freezer for a quick pudding .when the children were small tthey used to love raspberries that had been warmed iin a pan so they became all juicy and 'microwave meringues ' floating over the top.They were also fasinated by helping to make the microwave meringues , seeing this litle clump of like a fondant icing texture grow into ovely crumby light meringues.

Blueberries , the ones that are sold in the shops I quite like , but I used to ick the tiny wild blueberries years ago when I could find then but never quite got enough to make much more than a blueberryand apple pie occasionally ( as most disapeared down myself and my friends as we used to pick them.... of course it was for the reasons of quality control !!)

Blackberries , Blackberry and appple jam , this was the one thing that even if it was a bit tough and rubbery ..or..too rubbery ,when my mother made it and it tasted ok .Bramble jelly is lovely , but I have not made it for a while.The cultivated blackberries that are in the shops as very tasty .

Goosberries are delicious , but I tink that a lot of people pick them too early nowadays whilst they are still very hard and green instead of waiting a bit till they have just a bit of 'give ' when you pinch them ....the flavour is better if they are left a little longer on the bush. I love gooseberry fool , such a simple pudding that has gone out of fashion a bit.

Redcurrants , blackcurrents and white currants .... are there classed as berries ? anyway I am very forn of these as well !!

I dont use elderberries much but they do make a cracking wine !and a syrup made from elderberryjuice is lovely dribbled over icecream.

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I've never met a berry I didn't like. I love the desserts we had in Germany at Movenpick - pies and tarts with a mix of all the various types of berries - blueberries, blackberries, currants, raspberries, strawberries.

I sometimes make 'American' pudding which is a creamy custard made on the stovetop not in the oven, a homemade vanilla and then top it with wild blueberries and fresh raspberries. I wish I had some in front of me right now!

Danny, I am not sure if your mulberries are the same as the wild ones we used to eat as kids. These were a kind of pale rose color and were not all that flavorful or sweet, but fun to eat, juicy and interesting. I may have to google . . .

Simple question this week - do you like berries? How do you eat or cook with them? We used to have a mulberry tree back in Aus, I have not had a decent mulberry in years.... Mum used to make mulberry pies and mulberry jam which was ohhhhhh soooooo good!

Cheers

Danny

"..................................We used to have a mulberry tree back in Aus, I have not had a decent mulberry in years.... Mum used to make mulberry pies and mulberry jam which was ohhhhhh soooooo good!"

this is a beautiful starting for a film, I can see Danny as a child and taste the sweetness of the mulberries on the tree and the smell of those too ripe fallen on the grass, making a sort of must

.........an old farmer told me some days ago that in past times there was not a single mulberry on the ground, children ate them short before they were ripe on the branches

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I know that once I got in trouble from my for staining my dress with the Mulberry juice from the fruits on the tree Grandmadamada so I guess you are right there, if I was not allowed to climb the tree ( unless of couse noone could see me !) then I must have eaten the fruits from the lower branches or from the ground as they fell from the tree ... so long ago I cant remember , all I remember is that it was a big house hat seemed dark inside and there was this magical tree that seemed to fill the garden to me . It was the only time as a child that I ever saw a Mulberry tree as they are not common in the UK.

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